The associations of several disease entities in rheumatology with the human major histocompatibility system-the HL-A system-are well knDwn; as a review see for example Ryder et a1 (1 ). Although the regulatory functions of this system, the most complex and polymorphic known genetic system of mar., a
Familial articular chondrocalcinosis in quebec
✍ Scribed by André Gaudreau; Monique Camerlain; Marie-Laure Pibarot; Germain Beauregard; André Lebrun; Claude Petitclerc
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 472 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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